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It's the sort of phrase that sounds idiomatic and may not ever have been widely used, ... but I would associate it with the notion of laying responsibility or blame on someone else. In this case he's saying "Don't try to shift the attention to me, you're the one with the problem here".

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Thank you.
Hutch is in denial: he won't admit his friend's boyfriend is suspect number one.
Starsky is trying to persuade him that, being police officers, they must check out also this guy's alibi and not just take his word for it.

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It is still very likely something misheard- the most common phrase can be found here without the "out".
G**gle finds 5 hits for "Don't lay that out on me" (one of them is this thread) and over 8,000 for "Don't lay that on me"!

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It is still very likely something misheard- the most common phrase can be found here without the "out".
G**gle finds 5 hits for "Don't lay that out on me" (one of them is this thread) and over 8,000 for "Don't lay that on me"!